As the nature of the Golden Retriever's fur is related to the texture of its skin, it can not stand the muggy weather. The Golden Retriever is easy to care for as long as it is brushed weekly. The morning and evening should each comb wool 1 time, each comb wool 5 minutes. Grooming should be done in order: from the neck, from front to back, from top to bottom, from neck to shoulders, then back, chest, waist, abdomen, hindquarters, then head, finally limbs and tail, carding process should comb one side and then comb the other side. Carding technique: carding hair should be in accordance with the direction of fast carding pull. Many people in the long-haired dog comb, comb the surface of the long hair, and neglect the fine hair below the comb. The undercoat of a dog is soft and dense. If left uncombed for a long time, it can become tangled and may even cause Eczema, ringworm, or other skin diseases. Therefore, in the long-haired dog combing, should be layer by layer combing, but also turn up the long hair, and then its bottom hair combing. Types of combs: hairbrushes, elastic wire brushes, and long, loose metal combs. The brush can make the end of long hair fleece, and fine hair but comb not. Combing long-haired dogs, brush, elastic wire brush, and long and thin metal comb should be used together.
The best food for Golden Retriever is dog food, it is very difficult to achieve a reasonable nutritional ratio of home-made food, dog food is processed according to this nutritional ratio, is the best food for dogs. In addition, if the dog to eat home-made food, attention to put a small amount of salt cooked food, excessive salt, and raw food are detrimental to the health of dogs. If you can not give it to eat dog food and home-made food, pay attention to match to ensure balanced nutrition. Animal Offal (Note: Do not feed the liver for a long time, it will be poisoned), meat, cornmeal, fish (Note: Fish Hard thorns may be stuck, it is best to pick off), carrots, etc., can be dog food, almost no salt cooked food. In addition to feeding puppy food to mix with a little warm water.
The diet of a golden retriever largely depends on the size of your golden retriever, but for a golden retriever puppy, you need to feed about three glasses a day. An adult golden retriever needs four to five cups, depending on their level of exercise.
Golden retriever growth needs protein, vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, and other nutrients. So the food prepared for his needs to be tested to see if the nutrition meets the growing needs of the golden retriever. Professional Natural Dog food, is in accordance with the healthy growth of the dog’s nutritional needs to produce, will not add harmful pigments, chemical additives, so the golden retriever’s health is beneficial. At the same time, the golden retriever at different ages, there is also a relatively suitable food. For example, in the golden retriever puppy period, the body grows rapidly and the need for nutrition is great. However, the dog’s physical development is not yet complete, if you feed the hard food will easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort, bad for the dog’s health. At this point, the owner should choose soft, easily digestible food, or hard dog food with warm water soaked soft after feeding. And the principle of feeding should be to eat a small amount of food, to avoid causing gastrointestinal burden to Golden Retriever puppies. Besides professional dog food, proper meat is also very necessary for a golden retrievers. Choose lean meat with less fat, Cook it in clean water, cut it into small pieces, and feed it to golden retrievers. Also, fresh vegetables can be prepared for Golden Retriever on a regular basis. Vegetables are rich in vitamins and are very good for the golden retriever’s health.
According to Dr. Ross D. Clark's "medical and genetic aspects of purebred dogs," golden retrievers are thought to have the following diseases:
Cataract: this familial problem has been recognized as a dominant feature and may not be visible for a year or more.
Hot spot: a common diagnosis of golden retriever, this surface bacterial infection is due to self inflicted trauma due to scratching.
Allergic skin disease: golden retriever dogs are vulnerable to foreign parasites and dirty fur coats due to their thick, thick hair, which can cause scratching. Brushing your teeth regularly and forcefully can help prevent this.
Food allergy: the golden dragon fish is sensitive to inhalation allergy, and the risk of food allergy is higher.
Hypothyroidism: the incidence rate of golden retriever is reported to be increasing.
Subaortic stenosis: this inherited heart defect is common in golden retrievers.
When Training Golden Retrievers, be sure to put an end to the rough way and any animal, golden retrievers have a very strong vigilance to human, corporal punishment to force the Golden Retriever to obey the method is the most important. From the Golden Retriever’s point of view, being beaten and kicked for unknown reasons can only create the impression of being abused. If the owner is very powerful, the Golden Retriever may obey out of fear. However, dogs raised in such an environment are extremely insecure, sometimes attacking small children or the elderly, and even biting can be dangerous. Therefore, most golden retrievers will be silenced when Golden Retriever disobeys, shouts commands, and shoots golden retrievers in the face with a water pistol. Training anytime anywhere is a misunderstanding, that is, golden retriever training is time-limited, in fact, is wrong. We walk, eat, visitors, and other daily life should patiently teach the golden retriever which is “to do” and which is “not to do” things. Don't praise too much. Unlike with babies, praise for golden retrievers should only be given when the golden retriever is very obedient. If you constantly praise it, it will lead to confusion, it does not know when to get praise, thus increasing the difficulty of training later. The most important thing is to be patient. Golden Retriever is not an animal who can be taught once or twice and immediately remember and act accordingly. It needs to be built up over time. Therefore, it requires the breeder to be patient and constantly train it.
Here's what you need to know before you adopt a golden retriever: 1. Take your golden retriever for regular vaccinations. In addition, implant chips, disease treatment, are golden hair growth process must take care of things. 2. Because the golden retriever has not yet learned to spot excretion, the number of excretion. As a result, owners may have to be patient all day with the newspaper, followed by the Golden Dog’s ass waiting to receive the dog's excrement and urine. At the same time, Xiaojin carried it to a designated spot and began to learn spot defecation as soon as it moved. 3. The main care to comb the thick back hair of the golden retriever, not only need to comb hair every day, but also, when eating, the dog also need to pay attention not to let its mouth to eat dirty, but also to avoid being contaminated by food. In addition, the usual environmental cleanliness can not be neglected; you should know that Xiaojin dogs will roll in the ground and make themselves dirty. 4. Think about whether you want your dog to be happy for the rest of his life, and whether you want to spend more than 10 years of your life with him. 5. Golden retrievers live a short life span of 10 to 15 years. Therefore, the adoption of a golden retriever, the owner has to take responsibility for more than 10 years. 6. Golden Retriever, like a child, there will be parasites in the stomach, should be regularly started at an early age for golden retriever internal and external deworming. Kill. Some golden retrievers are genetically or Hip dysplasia and their owners should be very careful when taking care of them in their lives.
